i absolutely love summer! i love calm mornings when i get to sit and hold vivian and i can hear my kids playing. i love hanging out with my kids and having adventures with them, but mostly, i love just talking and laughing with them. sadie left for girl's camp with our new ward and i am missing her! they went to bear lake and i hope she is having a great experience.
i am also tending my niece for a few days while her parents are being in charge of trek.
this summer abe and i are training for a 5k. someone said you don't train for a 5k, but i am. this fifth pregnancy about did me in. it's hard for me to run, but i wanted to pick something that was hard for me and show my kids i could make myself do it. abe is helping me and we are going to do it together. i love saying things like, i'd better eat since i'm 'training'...sadie will laugh because she knows i only run a mile. ANYWAY, we always run past this little pond and it's full of little guppies (dave informed us they are called minnows). we decided today's adventure should be catching guppies.
before vivian and i reached the pond, abe was already up to his shoulders in the water and his shoe was stuck in the sinking mud. gross.
they caught five. their names: max, kai, abe, mini abe, and HUGE abe :)
i kept thinking how gross the water was and reminding myself that my mom used to send my brothers to the canal to swim...ghetto. point is, they survived without catching any major disease.
the boys thought it was great!
after guppy hunting, we headed to the pool. i strategically planned pond then swimming, in hopes the chlorine would kill any germ left on us from the yucky pond water.
i love this picture of max wearing his life jacket that always pushes up on his cheeks:)
i dipped vivi's feet in the water and she liked it. we decided to let her get in in her clothes--i hope it reminded her of when she was in my tummy and i jumped in fully dressed to save max.
I LOVE FUN SUMMER DAYS!
**our next adventure will be releasing the guppies. abe has such a tender heart. i love that about him.
